Finance Associate (m/f/d)

Finance Associate (m/f/d)

Remote (EMEA)

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Hello👋I am Sven, Finance Manager at Kayzen, and I am looking for a Finance Associate to join our global team 🙌

In this role, Your mission is to ensure high quality support services to internal and external stakeholders by taking full ownership of key operative tasks within the finance department’s realm of responsibility. Furthermore it is to strengthen Kayzen’s FP&A, Controlling, and Reporting capacities by supporting the Finance Manager in Budgeting and Management & Investor Reporting.

But wait, you have not heard of Kayzen before?😃
Kayzen is a mobile demand-side platform (DSP) dedicated to democratizing programmatic advertising. We enable leading apps, agencies, media buyers, and brands to run programmatic customer acquisition, retargeting, and brand performance campaigns through its self-serve and managed service options. Built on the core pillars of performance, transparency, control, and empowerment, Kayzen powers the world’s best mobile marketing teams with bespoke solutions that fuel business growth and deliver a competitive advantage. With an unprecedented scale of 160B+ daily ad requests from 1.6B+ unique users worldwide, we serve up to 1B+ ads per day in 180 countries. Kayzen is accessible through our APIs and user interface.

Responsibilities

1. Reporting & Controlling (30%)
Proactively maintain, extend, and improve our management and investor reporting landscape, including:

• Cost control and profitability analysis

• Cash flow monitoring and forecasting

• Preparation of monthly management and investor reports

2. Budgeting (20%)

• Create ad-hoc reports and perform analysis of historical data as needed to support strategic decision-making.

3. Operations (50%)

Take full ownership of key financial operations, including:

• Drafting contract amendments based on provided templates

• Managing communication and support for incoming tickets from internal and external stakeholders

• Maintaining and regularly auditing our internal customer credit system

What you Bring:

• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience following a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.

• Excel Proficiency: Strong intermediate to advanced Excel skills, with hands-on experience in building financial models and conducting detailed analysis. Familiarity with PowerQuery is a plus.

• Business Acumen: Ability to make strategic, well-informed decisions by understanding how the company operates and competes in the market.

• FP&A and Reporting: Solid experience in financial planning & analysis, budgeting, controlling, and reporting activities.

• Operational Agility: Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments with shifting priorities, high-pressure situations, and a large volume of tasks or requests.

• Experience with SQL is a plus.

• Language Skills: Proficiency in English is required; German language skills are an advantage.

• Industry Experience: Prior experience working in startups or the Ad-Tech industry is a strong plus.

What do we offer?

• Exceptional career growth and learning opportunity
• A unique opportunity to be part of an experienced team of industry experts and entrepreneurs who bring massive change to the Adtech market
• A fun, driven, and multinational team located across Germany, India, Argentina, Israel, Ukraine, Turkey, the UK and more countries
• A flexible work-from-home arrangement
• A 500-dollar home-office setup budget
• A 1000-dollar annual learning and development budget